skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we found that manual in "the baby book" by william and martha sears. it was really helpful in the first few years. the book promotes the idea of attachment parenting, which i feel is the right approach. but any parent should decide that for themselves. the general rule for parenting advice though is to only apply advice that makes sense to you. don't let anyone pressure you into doing anything you don't agree with.

i think you'll never stop figuring things out as your kids grow. not with the first few anyways. i guess repetition only comes in with the fourth child or so ;-)
(old discussion)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40377685
NATO's Emergency Plan for an Orbital Backup Internet
Shadow of the Torturer is wonderful.
It’s too bad they don’t make this easier on developers, Apple. Is there a reason I don’t see?
I once had a crazy idea to build an inner frame and my own floor and walls onto those frames, in a room I was renting for a long time. I ended up not doing that, and depending on your situation it might not be allowed to do it (either because of rules from the landlord, or fire safety that you have to consider).

I still think it’s an idea worth considering in some situations though, as long as you are sure it’s compliant with rules from the landlord and fire safety regulations etc.
I have three adult daughters.

None of them have children.

I do not blame any of them.

They are all educated professionals with stable careers, and they all pay more in rent than I do for my mortgage.

If decades ago I lived in the socioeconomic conditions in which they are currently living, I would have gotten a vasectomy in my 20s to avoid the financial terrorist attack that is having a baby.
Making software is more than coding. It's about both solving and finding problems. In my experience, boring people make uninteresting products and lack imagination to solve the hard ones. Having fun is crucial for creativity and loosening the mind to now what you "should do" but what you "could do".

You get paid to solve problems not write software, and having fun is critical to solving problems. If you are bored, stressed, and frustrated, what makes you think your mind would be in a good place to solve problems?
> Being authentic is the ticket to public office now

No, its not.

The preferred image may be more combative, aggressive, and anti-social than in the recent past, but as always adherence to it is more important than actual authenticity.

> I’m kind of glad that the value of blackmail futures has plummeted to zero

It hasn’t, though the value function for current negative information is different, so things that were once valuable for blackmail or otherwise harmful to public image are less so (and things that were not are moreso.)

> I always thought millenials would be the culprit because millennials have so much online, but nope, it was just old fashioned baby boomers that have spearheaded that double down on their indiscretions and are the role models for the country’s top offices

The only boomer I can think of that you might be talking about denies them constantly (even if there is past documentation of his acknowledging them in a general sense) and is supported by favor-currying media magnates who either actively promote propaganda favoring his messaging on that or, at a minimum, actively spike critical coverage.

And even within his movement and with the support of his cult of personality and the same favorable media, others in his orbit have often been less successful in having their indiscretions given a pass (see, e.g., Matt Gaetz’s nomination for Attorney-General of the United States.)
A perfectly reasonable comparison and I agree with your point.
Because businessmen are men, and men are greedy and scared before they are rational. Most people will invest 5 to get 10, instead of 10 to get 30.
> To choose an image, go to Google Images

Or plug one of the many royalty-free photo sites like Unsplash or Pexels (and comes with the bonus of teaching people to consider copyrights when you publish a site).
I don't really get that impression, in my experience people just realize cancelling is a two-way street and stop it

I’ve been told “I’m making someone uncomfortable” and I said “they’re making me uncomfortable”, and follow that up with “why are you privileging their discomfort over mine” and when they or the mob say something gendered or sexist as the explanation, then I get to cancel all of them or get a nice fat paycheck
You just have to remember how computing was before Apple got their sh*t together. Who wants iOS to be like android or macOS to be like windows? I don’t have time to mess with those anymore.
Yes, I didn't mean to imply that Linux was doing anything wrong, just that some hardware seems to work better with other approaches, for the reasons you state.
We never hear of encroachment of precious farmlands by sprawling urban areas either.
All we saw for 4 years was articles talking about how we were in the best economy ever and downplaying inflation, ignoring the actual issues at hand and changing nothing (while Americans continued to suffer).

Would we even see this article if Harris won?

All Biden had to do after Covid was make it easier for businesses to hire US employees and we would be in a much better place. Instead, he closed down major oil pipelines (which accelerated inflation) and imposed taxes and restrictions on companies (and continued to threaten to impose even more).

Businesses plan months (and sometimes years in advance) and the end result was layoffs and cutting budgets. This was why most Americans voted him out.

The tariffs won't last long. They are just threats by Trump to get major leaders to pay their fair share. All of them have already come to the negotiating table and I'm guessing things will be resolved before he even takes office or shortly after.
You are probably correct. This is not my area of expertise, and I likely made an assertion that has weak support.
> The app I was thinking about wasn't self hosted, sorry about the confusion

My wording was a bit confusing in how I said it, but what I meant to say was that like the one you were thinking of this one is also not self-hosted.
I tried to learn F* but honestly it was quite confusing with all the different sub-languages and variants.
I don't know about building an entire false frame (what do you do with it when you move? You would lose a ton of interior space. Your ceilings would only be 7 feet, etc).

But I've definitely seen people build a false wall that covered 1/2 of a real wall to make fake builtins over a fake fireplace. But they could take it with them when they left.
With what the OP asked for, I don't think wgpu is the right choice. They want to push the limits of Apple Silicon, or do Apple platform specific work, so an abstraction layer like wgpu is going in the opposite direction in my opinion.

Metal, and Apple's docs are the place to start.
NASA Spacecraft 'Touches Sun' in Defining Moment for Humankind
Can you elaborate on where quantum computing can fit in? We want this thing future-proofed.
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no, i don't think i would. it sounds like we're different people.

> The housing shortage and high prices are not the fault of sellers.

if you are holding onto unused housing without listing it on the market then you are most certainly contributing to the problem.
This applies to user experience as well. I've seen designers focus on number of items or number of clicks when mental effort / cognitive load is what matters. Sometimes picking from a list of 50 links is easier. Sometimes answering 7 yes/no questions is easier.
> Just resist the urge to post information you don't want others to have.

Self-censor you mean?

I personally like that information anonymous account `William Shakespeare` posted around 1585–1613.
For a language that touts its practicalities, the name isn't a great start. Although F*lang or F***lang (maybe Foq?) seem like reasonable search proxies.
That's not a very accurate summary. I think you're probably referring to [1] which says

> because polyfills are really hard to get right and we should treat everything as insecure and wrong by default ... I took a brief look at your code and I don't think it's spec-compliant enough to be advertised as a polyfill/ponyfill because it is prone to global pollution.

They then demonstrate that it's not compliant, which the contributor seems to think is not relevant.

Mostly, this contributor comes across as hurt that their PR wasn't immediately merged by virtue of their many years in the field. I might be missing something here though which puts the MDN team in the wrong, but...

[1] https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/36294#issuecomment-24076...
I want to win every argument I have in here.
I think this site is fantastic: https://quantum.country/
The secret is multiple accounts. I too have a Brand Name Account(tm) I like to float around but it sure as heck isn’t this one.

Doing the multiple account thing isn’t as easy as it sounds though. Some sites like Reddit make switching between accounts incredibly easy while others aren’t so much. Plus laziness kicks in and soon enough your Brand Name Account gets tainted and you have to consider taking it out back to the dumpster.

Such is life I guess.
> You just gotta show up and see the same people every week over and over.

I second that. I started dancing social Argentinian tango at about 35, first just visiting classes, then practicas, then milongas. I now have more friends from there than from my school and university years.
and a nod to my beliefs.

You could have just said that you're still a believer. Not being 'active' doesn't mean anything if you're still a believer.

I don't know why you'd refuse to embrace the joy of Christmas in your situation. Self-denial and suffering aren't noble virtues, contrary to what religion loves to tell people. It's okay to enjoy things.
What would you during a two-year non-compete?
Ask HN: Simple pay-as-you-go accounting for SaaS
I couldn't find a lot of content online about how accounting for a SaaS would
work if I wanted to implement a pay-as-you-go system; so I wrote a small blog
post on it.

I'm curious about how other people are solving this kind of a problem in their
own software.

https://arjoonn.com/static/post/0281b24ea4f932dbd545f851e8fc...
I get lots of Cloudflare authenticators, some Youtube content gets blocked, and a few sites will not load at all. Reddit (which I avoid as often as possible) blocks it completely [1]. Switching to a different country sometimes works but increasingly does not. I don't use streaming services apart from Youtube.

Still, I am happy with the service and will continue to use it.

Edit:

[1] As others have written below, Reddit blocks when not logged in. Since I don't have an account, that's a 100% block rate for me.
I'm with innocentoldguy. IDE's just feel bad to use.
And you addressed exactly zero existential concerns.

Assume I had no choice of the programming jobs I was taking in the last years. Now try to fit your framework of mind in it.

Present me the result as a textual reply here?

Hint: what I felt and how I felt... nobody cared.
Very little of corporate software development requires any computer science knowledge. Most of us aren’t on the bleeding edge of anything. We need programmers who understand mature (aka boring) technology. Corporate software development is a trade. It’s like plumbing or running a CNC mill.
Are you saying that the establishment is anti capitalist?
If you’ve thought a lot about shoelaces, I assume you’ve seen https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/. I switched to a square knot a few years ago and my shoes basically never come untied.
I don't take issue with the creation of Israel as a means to put all the displaced Jews somewhere. I take issue with that the land provided for this project was taken without the consent of any of the nations from which it was taken, which is colonialism and why it's impossible to separate Israel from the colonialist roots that helped create it. Just as it's impossible to not see it as an act of Western dominance towards the middle east to whom it was done. Like, there's no reason at all (apart from latent, extremely quiet antisemitism on the part of the Allied powers post WWII that they didn't want to discuss) that all those refugees couldn't have been subsumed into any of these countries, especially America, who at the time was boasting not only the only economy not obliterated by WWII, but also shit tons of open land. We could've absolutely made room for all the Jews that would be sent to colonize Israel (yes I chose that word on purpose).

However localizing it in an area none of them had any stake in was better politically, and yeah it meant pissing off basically every neighboring country to Israel, but that was also in line with the other priorities the West was holding: a strategic, permanent emplacement in the middle eastern region that would not ever oppose Western interests in any way, because it owed it's existence to the West.

It's a brilliant strategy overall as long as you ignore how it treated entire swaths of humanity as beneath consideration for what their own futures looked like, as long as those swaths of humanity were darker in complexion than yourself.
Foq is hilarious, especially given that just today Coq released its website with its new name (Rocq)
It's implicitly timing the market. If you have all the money available at the beginning of the year a better strategy is to just invest everything asap.

If you get the money monthly (e.g. from salary) then that's just normal investing and you don't have a choice anyway.

If you think that is some clever strategy then honestly you probably should get professional advice because you have some fundamental misunderstandings of the stock market.
> The companies where we were like ”woah, these folks are smart as hell” for the most part failed

Being clever, for the most part, almost never buys you anything. Building a cool product has nothing to do with being particularly smart, and scaling said product also rarely has much to do with being some kind of genius.

There's this pervasive Silicon Valley throughline of the mythical "10x engineer," mostly repeated by incompetent CEO/PM-types which haven't written a line of code in their lives. In reality, having a solid mission, knowing who your customer is, finding that perfect product market fit, and building something people love is really what building stuff is all about.

At the end of the day, all the bit-wrangling in the world is in service of that goal.
There certainly is a reason and indeed you don't see it because Apple downplays these things in their PR.

It might be the same reason that is behind NVDIA's CUDA moat. CUDA lock-in prevented competitors like AMD and Intel to convince programmers and their customers to switch away from CUDA. So there was no software ported to their competitive GPU's. So you get anti-trust lawsuits [1].

I think you should put yourself in Apples management mindset and then reason. I suspect they think they will not sell more iPhones or Macs if they let third party developers access the low level APIs and write faster software.

They might reason that if no one knows the instruction sets hackers will write less code to break security. Security by obscurity.

They certainly think that blocking competitors from reverse engineering the low power Apple Silicon and blocking them from using TSMC manufacturing capacity will keep them the most profitable company for another decade.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40593576
Is the page layout meaningfully different on some other device/browser?

I see less than 30% of my screen space being used for actual content. Dropped below 50% somewhere around the time they decided they like LLMs.
It's also that the people best equipped to simplify complexity (due to familiarity or just high intelligence) are perfectly comfortable operating within it, and so the intrinsic motivation just isn't there.
I'm pretty glad that maintenance and insurance are mandatory, and that most alterations to a vehicle require passing a special inspection.

And it would be great if batteries, including their mounting frame and cooling system, were standardized in such a way that one would not only be able to let a shop replace the battery, but also have the option to buy a car without a battery and either reuse the old one or buy a new one from a better brand.
The Dodo lived on a tiny island and it was driven extinct largely by invasive species brought by humans.

It took humans quite a bit longer to drive say, the tarpan, to extinction.
An LLM is just a processor [video]
Often. It is becoming a big problem. In the last couple of days youtube has become almost unusable. Reddit is usually blocked. Twitch shadowbans chats. A lot of random unexpected sites block it like wiki pages. Captchas make google too annoying to use (but mullvad has its own proxy called Leta but it lacks features like suggested corrections to the search). I still use it always and persist despite this. Often hopping servers will work but I might have to try 5+ different servers
That’s weird. You acknowledge that there is a choice between iPhone and android but want to take that choice away from iPhone users because you feel like they look down on you. Honestly, I think most of the anti Apple sentiment I hear on HN falls into this kind of bucket.
Very cool!

Add a "similar papers" link to each paper, that will make this the obvious way to discover topics by clicking along the similar papers.
Where did you get the notion that there are too many humans on earth? Is the number of insects okay?
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Oh dear, why not erase Voyager? Neelix alone demands erasure. They should have left Lt Paris as an amphibian after that transwarp flight.
Without enough kids, then as old people die then we get excess housing and housing asset prices tank.

The counterforce is that popular/desirable locations will still have inflow. Desirable locations will be fought over to show high status and housing becomes a Veblen good in those locations.
> Stunning stat: 64% of young women say they just don't want children, compared to 50% of men. (US statistics, contextualize accordingly)

I did read the context you offered and I offer this.

The causes I suggest can be a primary driver while being fully uncredited. The reason is our new child-raising dystopia is our assumed reality. It goes unconsidered because there is low awareness of what historical parenting actually looked like.

Stated differently, people correctly understand how massively taxing raising kids is. However they consider that taxation as if it were the ever-existant reality. They don't consider that [compared to now] raising kids used to be a trivial task most of the time.

Historical kids amped up critical life-skills with their peers and away from adults. During those same hours, their parents worked and maintained their own social lives.

Conversely, modern kids are ever-attached to modern parents and this severely limits everyone's opportunities for natural social interaction.
Maybe one thing you could do if you have large enough windows so people would see: in-door wall projection, e.g. something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtFthRSqRwQ but interior?
A good start would be tying retirement benefits to the # of kids you raised. If you dont have kids, you dont get social security and have higher taxes on 401k withdrawals.
USB4 is required to support Thunderbolt, and USB4 cables are similar to Thunderbolt in their price and thickness, so this problem already exists, just with shittier naming conventions.

Basically for any cheap use cases, you just have to buy a random "USB-C" cable with unknown capabilities, while for specific data use cases you have to buy a "USB-C" cable that also supports a specific data rate, either USB 3.1, USB 3.2, USB4 v1.0, USB4 v2.0, or Thunderbolt 3/4/5 (and most cables will support multiple of these, for example USB 3.2 Gen2x2 is the same speed as USB4 v1.0 and TB3).
I don't know if the market is big enough to offset the cost of setting up production again.
Are there any immutable distros that cleanly divide system/desktop and end-user programs, with only the former being immutable and the latter being business as usual for desktop Linux? So the kernel, drivers, and KDE/GNOME would be fall into the immutable “core”, but apps like Firefox, Krita, and Anki would be in a mutable space managed by a traditional package manager like apt.

Just wondering because it’s really just the system itself and my desktop environment that I find the benefits of immutability most pertinent, whereas it’s something of a bad fit for applications with the woes flatpak and friends bring for desktop integration and such.
The Downfall of Alternative Front Ends
> but most people in the world are worried about putting food on the table and taking care of their kids

People love to repeat this myth, as if most human beings won't care about others or about their own future, as if they can't understand enlightened self-interest, or can't understand climate change. Mostly, it's yet another argument for powerlessness and inaction.

The public has gotten behind so many things now and historically. Right now they are the power behind movements that have nothing to offer but brazen falsehoods, corruption, and hate. And yet all the good people say, mass movements are impossible, there's nothing we can do but suffer.
We can measure and quantify this cognitive load! I’ve been researching this for a book and have found some really cool research from ~10 years ago. It seems people stopped thinking about this around when microservices became popular (but they have the same problems just with http/grpc calls instead).

There are two main ways to measure this:

1. Cyclomatic/mccabe complexity tells you how hard an individual module or execution flow is to understand. The more decision points and branches, the harder. Eventually you get to “virtually undebuggable”

2. Architectural complexity measures how visible different modules are to each other. The more dependencies, the worse things get to work with. We can empirically measure that codebases with unclear dependency structures lead to bugs and lower productivity.

I wrote more here: https://swizec.com/blog/why-taming-architectural-complexity-...

The answer seems to be vertical domain oriented modules with clear interfaces and braindead simple code. No hammer factory factories.

PS: the big ball of mud is the world’s most popular architecture because it works. Working software first, then you can figure out the right structure.
Just a clarification to my comment.

If I remember correctly, I don't think the claim was teen pregnancy was the "primary driver of population growth" but one of the variables that has a large impact on fertility rates. Most people see the reduction in teen moms as a positive development.

I also think the reduction in unplanned pregnancy to be a net positive. So 20 somethings finishing school before starting a family is good, but it's also probably resposible for fewer large families. I believe polling shows most woman want more children than they actually end up having. I'm sure part of that explanation is that people are starting families later in life.
perhaps expand music to audio?

I have two cli tools open sourced:

asak: a cross-platform audio recording/playback CLI tool with TUI, written in Rust

https://github.com/chaosprint/asak

glicol cli: cross-platform music live coding in terminal

https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli

anyway, very good design!
Great that they are self hosting their support email. Curious about which software they are using, few years ago I have a good experience with the open source/self hosted OS Ticket tool to handle support tickets, follow up messages, threads, multiple support seats, etc. It has some UX issues, wondering if there is any other good solutions out there right now.